Focus on AI & Big Data

Dr. Andreas Braun is a Director for Artificial Intelligence & Data Science in Technology Advisory with a focus on AI, Biometrics, and Secure Infrastructures at PwC Luxembourg.

He has more than 13 years of experience in managing R&I projects, particularly in applied machine learning, border security, evaluation of security products, and innovation in IT systems. He has worked on the transformation of migration and border management, quality assurance on central biometric identity hubs and the requirements, design and implementation support of large-scale IT infrastructure for traveller identity management in Europe. Clients include the International Organisation for Migration, DG Home, Frontex, eu-LISA, or Star Alliance.

Andreas is proficient in English, native German speaker and has an intermediate proficiency in French. He holds a Doctorate of Engineering in Computer Science and is the Luxembourg Ambassador for the European Association for Biometric.

Inès Buttet is a Policy and Regulatory Affairs Advisor within the Business Development team of Luxembourg For Finance.

While contributing to the Business Development team efforts which involves promoting Luxembourg’s financial industry internationally, she focuses primarily on Regulatory and Policy developments in the EU and Luxembourg.

Prior to working at Luxembourg for Finance, Inès worked in the Asset and Wealth Management industries, first as a Research Analyst; then, as an Investment Advisor and Portfolio Manager focusing primarily on funds and hedge funds and providing investment advice to UHNWI.

Anne Goujon is Head of Data Science Laboratory at BGL BNP Paribas.

Since 2017, she oversees the development of AI technology within the bank. She maintains a strong innovation agenda to transform solutions and processes and to improve both employees and clients experience. Anne, in her role, is highly involved in the AI ecosystem of Luxembourg through the strong partnership built between BGL BNP Paribas and SnT research centers from the University of Luxembourg. She is as well a strong advocate of emerging technologies and innovation by working closely with highly innovative startups. Prior to her current role, Anne was the Head of Investment Risk and Modelling in Private Banking.

Before that she worked as a researcher in the modelling of Extreme Risk.

Chris Hollifield is head of business development at Luxembourg for Finance, where his work involves advising FinTech and financial companies looking to develop cross-border activity through Luxembourg-based platforms. He also advises on the development of the ecosystem in Luxembourg and on synergy creation with other key financial centres, with a focus on East Asia.

Prior to working at Luxembourg for Finance, Chris worked in the strategy department of Clearstream Banking SA, an International Central Securities Depository that facilitates the settlement of interbank transactions in over 50 markets worldwide. Here, his work focused particularly on strategic projects concerning distributed ledger technology and other FinTech topics.

Ananda Kautz joined the ABBL in 2020. She is in charge of helping ABBL members achieve their digital transformation and, in the area of payments, to contribute to making Luxembourg a centre of excellence in payments.

Ananda started her career in Luxembourg in 2006 at PwC. She then joined ING Luxembourg where she developed her expertise in payments and digital tools.

Ananda holds a business degree from ESSEC (France) and Concordia University (Canada) and a Master’s degree from Paris Dauphine University (France). Ananda has completed professional training in data-driven digital marketing and Agile project management.

Davide Martucci is the CEO and Co-Founder of Next Gate Tech, a SaaS platform providing Data Management and Analytics to the fund industry.

Davide started his career at UBS as an Investment Specialist and came to Luxembourg in 2015 to open the investment arm of a Single Family Office. This experience allowed him to get an insight into the complexity of the operations that are at the core of Luxembourg’s financial industry.

In 2019, he joined forces with Semin Ibisevic to create Next Gate Tech, a Fintech focusing on developing a technology which would bring the missing piece of the puzzle to fund industry operations by providing extensive data harmonisation and analytics capabilities.

Frederic Moioli is the Managing Director and the Global Head of Sales at Lingua Custodia, a French FinTech company leader in Natural Language processing  for financial institutions.

In 2019, he opened the company’s first office out of France in Luxembourg,

Prior to that, he held multiple senior sales positions within financial software and IT services companies over the past 15 years.

Stéphane Royer is the CTO and Co-Founder of the FinTech FundProcess since January 2019.

He has an extensive experience in financial software development as he is involved in the IT sector since 1998. He is specialist of full stack development and accomplished the rescue of some large ongoing projects in failure or to give a new youth to some old dying ones. Since he’s been involved in very large and complicated projects, he embraced the KISS principle that states that simple solutions are always the best by knowing that simple surely doesn’t mean easy! This vision encouraged him to believe that the integration of dedicated development capabilities into advanced business applications is the best way to lead to simplicity.

Stéphane is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional who used to be Microsoft technologies lead consultant working for a wide variety of financial services companies.

He is the author of ETL.NET, an open-source project, which is a mass processing engine fully dedicated for .NET developers.

Stéphane Royer is the CTO and Co-Founder of the FinTech FundProcess since January 2019.

Ken Van Eesbeek joined Gambit, a fintech company specialised in delivering digital investment solutions, in 2011. The ambition of Gambit is – then and now – simple: to put the customer at the heart of investment advice by the use of innovative technology.

 Throughout the years, he focused on business development, sales and project management. He notably contributed to the launch of Birdee, Gambit’s robo-advisor. This robo-advisor technology offers an alternative to the services normally provided by a financial advisor. With the same objective but 100% digital, it composes a selection of investments suited to the client’s budget and objectives.

 Currently, Ken is Head of Product & Innovation and, therefore, in charge of the pre-sales, proof of concepts and R&D within the growth team. He is also a member of the executive committee and contributes to the forward-looking vision at Gambit.